It’s worth noting, too, that Huffington Post and Sorkin should be ideological allies, inasmuch as both tilt toward progressive politics. So his broadside is all about the site’s excesses, and not so easily dismissed as just another partisan skirmish. (Incidentally, this isn’t the first time Sorkin has lamented the steady slide of media standards, having weighed in a few years ago regarding how the media has “de-creepyized voyeurism” in a piece via — wait for it — the Huffington Post.)

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Of course, even bothering to raise these questions risks being branded a fuddy-duddy, and railing against the influence of the Web, at this point, does have an obvious “You kids get off my lawn” quality. It’s simply a no-win situation, however good it might feel (especially if you have your own TV show) to vent about it, as Sorkin did by having “The Newsroom’s” protagonist say, “Snark is the idiot’s version of wit, and we’re being polluted by it.”

Still, just because you can’t change things doesn’t mean you have no right to gripe about them. And whatever I might think about “The Newsroom,” Sorkin deserves credit for having the guts to wade into these snark-infested waters.

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